ОБРАЗОВАЊЕ КАО ОСНОВНИ ЕЛЕМЕНТ КЊИЖЕВНЕ И КУЛТУРНЕ СЛИКЕ СВЕТА РОМАНА ПОП ЋИРА И ПОП СПИРА И ВУКАДИН СТЕВАНА СРЕМЦА
Education as the Basic Aspect of Cultural Image of the World in the Novel Priest Cira and Priest Spira and Vukadin by Stevan Sremac

Summary/Abstract: In the paper Education as the Basic Aspect of Cultural Image of the World in the Novel Priest Cira and Priest Spira and Vukadin by Stevan Sremac, the changes and the process at the level of education has been observed, that inevitably influence family, as the basic level of the cultural mosaic of a society. Within this paper we will deal with the beginnings of schooling and education in general in Vojvodina and its echoes in the area of Serbia after arriving of Dositej to Belgrade. We will follow the gradual development of schools form learning in monasteries to founding of private and state schools. In the novels by Sremac we come across confronting attitudes of the characters on education on the territory of Serbia and Vojvodina: education and europizing under the influence of Austro- Hungarian monarchy in the novel Priest Cira and Priest Spira and the lack of education in Serbian village and remote territory in the novel Vukadin. Forming of schools and educating abroad has lead the cultural life of the time to a significant change and acquired many influences, so within the work we will observe how a young hero is formed and how he fits in the educational system under the influence of his teacher. We will note the difficulties villagers once had because of the lack of educated people comparing to modern time (the time of Sremac when the novel was written) through the image of girls’ education and the consequences of their education. We will analyze the influences of education abroad, in foreign language, the changes it brings and causes in the society. At the same time we will follow the presence of the elements of traditional and modern (European) in Serbian culture that shows the contours of “noble society”. Within the work we will specially deal with Vukadin’s educational career from the beginning of education in his birth-village until the end of his schooling in Belgrade. By putting to the same line a village, a town and a city, the life that in different, and then again same ways prospers and develops, the road of success will be shown over which the general picture of society education in the 19th century will be clarified, and the path towards the goal will be set, sometimes “on the open road”, and more often “on the road covered with thorns” . The aim of the research within this paper is discovering of different paths of education and their influence on culture and literature, noting of similarities and differences, as well as discovering of the new ways of interpretation and observing of the novels of Sremac.

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